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...caused millions of dollars in damage but only eight deaths. The Pretoria bombing, however, which took place in a crowded commercial district at the end of the workday, seemed designed to cause as many casualties as possible. "The Southern Africa conflict has just moved up a ratchet," said Peter Vale of the respected South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. Said the Rev. Desmond Tutu, the black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg: "One act merely provokes another, and we are probably getting into a spiral of violence we cannot stop...
...change, he was the stuff of which rank-and-file Tories are made. He did not so much idealize stability as worship it, and as a result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...
...ANDERS WEINSTEIN '83, being vale edictoriem in high school was a serious matter. In the first place, he represented the student body of one of New York's most prestigious schools, stuyvesant And Carnegic Hall, the location of the ceremonies, could inspire the awe of even the most poised performer. So as Weinstein strode to the podium to begin his speech, he was understandably nervous. Even his closest friends were not then sure he would go through with the routine as planned...
...women's basketball action, K-House destroyed all comers, including an all-star team from Vale, and eventually romped to a 39-23 victory over a Winthrop squad to gain the hoop championship...
...world littered with 256 "scanners," people who telepathically link with another person's nervous system. Darryl Revok (Lawrence Dane), a bad scanner, tries to form an underground league of scanners who will overthrow the U.S. government and establish "a civilization that will be the envy of the world." Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), a good scanner, is abducted by Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan) so that he can be trained to search out and destroy Revok. Mutant takeover of the world is hardly an original idea, but the main plot pales when compared to the staggering number of inanities Cronenberg pours...